I expected to receive a ballot in the mail before I moved. The Riverside County Website informed me my ballot was mailed Sept. 16. My ballot had not shown before my mail forwarding order began Oct. 12.

At my previous La Quinta polling place, I was told more than 60 persons had not received mail ballots and needed to complete a provisional ballot. I’ve checked the Riverside County Election site, www.voteinfo.net, and my provisional ballot has not been recorded.

I am outraged. I did everything I could to exercise my constitutional right to vote. I was denied participation.

Before 2020, something needs to be done. Riverside County must go out of its way to allow the people who walk in to vote have a vote that counts. Technology should be evolved enough to recognize a double vote.

How many people do they think will double vote? As President Trump said, “they go to their cars and change their clothes, put on a hat…” Seriously? How many would mail in a ballot, then drive to their former polling place, stand in line possibly hours, and vote again?

This is voter suppression. This is not about preserving the integrity of the election.

The United States of America used tear gas on children at our southern border. We might want to stop for a moment and think what this means.

The greatest country that has ever existed has resorted to terrorizing children with chemicals in an effort to keep their parents out of the country. This is not an act of a great country; it is an act of a deranged man who is surrounded with sycophants and enablers. The two primary sycophants are senior advisors Jared and Ivanka.

This president is dragging this country into a ditch. We are not in the ditch yet, but we just drove onto the very soft berm.

At this moment we need statesmen and stateswomen to step forward and remove this disaster of a president from office. I used to think that Vice President Mike Pence would be worse, but I do not think a “worse” exists.

We are a country with a president who is purposely, and for his family’s financial benefit, separating us from our core beliefs and values. If we allow him to go any further, future generations will see us as willing participants in one of the darkest periods in American history.